Advertisement Continue reading the main storyIn 2003, Ruth Simmons, then the Brown University president, announced a major effort to research that school’s extensive historical ties to the slave trade. They are the ones, he said, who “keep us honest.”Research on the topic has been shadowed by the specter of reparations. Advertisement Continue reading the main story“He was not a nice slave owner,” Mr. Coquillette said dryly. said that research into universities and slavery can promote not just knowledge of the past, but justice and inclusion in the present. Advertisement Continue reading the main storySchools once worried that studies “would somehow tarnish our gates,” he said.

Source: New York Times March 05, 2017 22:18 UTC